Garbage & the Flowers - Eyes Rind As If Beggars lp + cd

$29.99

"Fire Records & Bo Weavil Recordings are extremely proud to present the long-awaited re-issue of The Garbage & The Flowers' classic double album Eyes Rind As If Beggars, a sprawling collection of fragile melodies, abrasive improvisations and velvet voices. The story of The Garbage & The Flowers,
by some measure Wellington's most brilliant pop band, is equal parts
classic underground rock'n'roll and a hazy ramshackle history pockmarked
with bursts of genius and stoned rehearsals. Rare is it for any band to
garner so much underground acclaim while leading such a nebulous
existence. A small handful of releases, compilation appearances and few
live shows make for a curious stop/start history. Tension can produce
the goods and tension was what watered The Garbage & The Flowers. Yuri Frusin (guitar, songwriting) and Helen Johnstone (viola, vocals, now bass) met in their teens sometime in the 1980s. Naming themselves after a line in Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" and taking cues from The Velvet Underground, the band has existed in some shape or form since, with help from Paul Yates, Heath Cozens, Torben Tilly, Rachel Davies, Kristen Wineera, and Stuart Porter.
When asked recently about the group, original drummer Tilly offers a
particularly apt description of their sound: "What I loved about the
music we created is that it sounded like it had come from somewhere
faraway, that it had traveled a lot of distance and gathered some dust
and debris along the way. That said, despite its unhinged qualities we
were never really a noise-band even though some strange and beautiful
electromagnetic noise would make it to tape. Most of the time it was all
deeply rooted in a song." This, of course, is one of the greatest parts
of The Garbage & The Flowers' charm. They really did seem out
there, on their own, absorbed in their own world, dropping gem after gem
of fractal noise-pop onto slowly corroding four-track cassettes,
willing these songs into existence just long enough to let them catch
breath and glide away from the speakers for a few moments, before Frusin
and Johnstone would knuckle down and write yet more beautiful melodies
for beautiful losers. This is a rock'n'roll classic which will whip the
wigs off all the crystalline clowns today." - FIRE RECORDSComes with a bonus cd of "additional material"